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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. The dictionary meaning of a word.






2. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.






3. A figure of speech in which a part of something represents its whole.






4. The point after the climax where the action begins to drop off and the events of the plot become clear or are explained in some way.






5. The conversation of characters in a literary work.






6. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.






7. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






8. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






9. A comparison between two things that share certain similarities.






10. The measured pattern of rhyhtmic accents in poems.






11. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.






12. A character struggles against some outside force.






13. The process by which the writer presents and reveals a character.






14. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






15. Broken down acts.






16. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






17. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.






18. A fourteen-line poem in iambic pentameter.






19. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






20. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






21. A four line stanza in a poem.






22. The organizational form of a literary work.






23. A figure of speech in which a writer or speaker says less than what he or she means.






24. Spectific characteristics are applied to an entire group of people and are used to 'classify' those people as part of a 'group'.






25. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






26. The selection of words in a literary work.






27. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






28. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






29. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.






30. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






31. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.






32. A line of poetry or prose in unrhymed iambic pentameter.






33. The person who 'tells' the story.






34. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






35. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






36. The series of events that make up a story or drama.






37. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






38. The difference between what the character or the reader expects what the character or the reader expects and what actually happens.






39. The traditional beliefs and customsof a group of people that have been passed down orally.






40. Prose writing about real people - places - and events.






41. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






42. Hints of what is to come in the action of a play or story.






43. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.






44. A struggle or clash between opposing characters - forces - or emotions.






45. The narrator is outside of the story and is all-knowing or 'God-like' because he/she knows everything that occurs and everything that each character thinks and feels.






46. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.






47. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






48. The emotion or feeling a word creates.






49. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






50. A type of poem characterized by brevity - compression - and the expression of feeling.







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